Facing a rapidly aging population and land scarcity, the Chinese capital is piloting burial spaces with electronic screens instead of headstones. When someone dies in Beijing, the body is typically cremated and the ashes are buried behind a gravestone in one of the city’s public cemeteries. Family and friends gather Read more…
Google is evaluating tools that would use AI to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be avoided. Earlier this year, Google, locked in an accelerating competition with rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI to develop A.I. technology, was looking for ways to put a charge into its Read more…
One of the most productive scientific collaborations of the 21st century is pulling apart, as deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China lead researchers to sever ties. The decoupling, which began in recent years with investigations into Chinese researchers in the U.S., has accelerated as tensions have risen between the Read more…
The New York Times updated its Terms of Service on August 3rd to prohibit its content from being used in the development of “any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system.” That includes text, photographs, images, audio/video clips, “look and feel,” Read more…
A very short, very wild history of the market that will shape the next financial crisis. Bonds have long been considered the most boring bit of finance. They occasionally crop up in literature, almost always as a signifier of dreariness. The Great Gatsby’s narrator Nick Carraway was a bond salesman Read more…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying up thousands of the high-performance Nvidia chips crucial for building artificial intelligence software, joining a global AI arms race that is squeezing the supply of Silicon Valley’s hottest commodity. The Gulf powerhouses have publicly stated their goal of becoming leaders in Read more…
Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a major new feature: it will be able to summarize articles you’re reading on the web, according to a Google blog post. SGE can already summarize search results for you so that you don’t have to scroll forever to find what you’re Read more…